Table 3.
Studies reporting frequency of tremor in idiopathic cervical dystonia patients.
Author/year | No of patients | Number of cervical dystonia patients | Frequency of head tremor | |
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Huizdosova et al [8] | 2020 | 120 | Cervical dystonia | 58.3 % (n = 70) |
Merola et al [9] | 2019 | 1608 | Cervical dystonia | 18.1% (n = 291) |
Gigante et al [10] | 2015 | 173 | 72 cervical dystonia patients | Overall 34% (n = 59) had tremor [12 patients- head tremor 34 patients-arm tremor 13 patients-both sites] |
Pandey et al [11] | 2017 | 90 | Adult onset isolated dystonia Cervical dystonia-41 Limb dystonia-34 Cranial dystonia-15 |
Overall 45.5% (n = 41) Cervical dystonia-21(51.2%) |
Erro et al [12] | 2013 | 473 | Adult-onset primary dystonia patients including 207 patients with cervical dystonia |
Overall 55.4% (n = 262) had tremor; 196 patients (41.4%) had head tremor |
Defazio et al [13] | 2013 | 429 | Primary adult onset dystonia patients including 118 cervical dystonia patients | 22/34 (64.7) patients with tremor had cervical dystonia |
Pal et al [14] | 2000 | 114 | Cervical dystonia | 68.4% (n = 78) had head tremor and 34.6% of them (27) had tremor as one of the first symptoms |
Deuschl et al [15] | 1997 | 55 | Idiopathic spasmodic torticollis | 60% |
Chan et al [16] | 1991 | 266 | Idiopathic cervical dystonia | 28% |
Jankovic et al [17] | 1991 | 300 | Cervical dystonia | 71% |
Couch et al [18] | 1976 | 30 | Torticollis | 26 (86.6%) |
Marsden et al [19] | 1971 | 42 | Idiopathic torsional dystonia | 6 (14%) |